Cigar and ash holder



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EDYVIN ALLEN TIBBITS AND CLARENCE XVILLIAM SADLER, OF SUTTER CREEK,CALIFORNIA.

CIGAR AND ASH HOLDER.

PECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 473,646, dated April 26,1892.

Application filed June 10, 1891. Serial No. 395.809. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, EDWIN ALLEN TIBBITs and CLARENCE WILLIAM SADLER,citizens of the United States, residing at Sutter Creek, Amador county,State of California, have invented an Improvement in Cigar and AshHolders and Furniture-Protectors; and we hereby declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

Our invention relates to a device which we term a cigar and ash holderand furnitureprotector.

It consists of a corrugated grooved or channeled plate with aconnecting-clamp and screw, whereby it may be adj ustably attached to atable or other piece of furniture, and a receiver or holder swivelingupon the holding screw-shank, so that it may be concealed beneath thetable or swung out beneath the end of a cigar which rests upon thechanneled plate to receive the ashes therefrom.

Referring to the accompanying drawings for a more complete explanationof our invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of our device attachedto a table. Fig. 2 is a section of the same, showing the cup under thetable.

Persons who smoke are in the habit of laying their cigars upon anyconvenient piece of furniture, and more especially upon the edge of thetable or desk at which they work. In some cases the burning end of thecigar is laid so near to the wood-Work as to burn and discolor it andthe ashes dropping from the end of the cigar fall upon the carpet,making a great deal of unsightly dirt and litter. Our device is intendedto protect the furniture, to provide a convenient holder or support forthe cigar when not in use, and a receptacle for the ashes which fallfrom its end.

A is a plate, which is preferably made of metal and may be plated orornamented, as desired. This plate has shallow grooves or channels B,made in its upper surface, these grooves serving to receive a cigar whenit is laid down and prevent its rolling away from The edge of this plateis bent down at right angles, as shown at C, and another bend D extendsinwardly beneath the part A and at such a distance therefrom thatit willextend beneath the edge of the table or desk to which the holder is tobe applied. Through the inwardly-projecting end D passes a screw E,which serves to clamp the holder permanently to the desk or other pieceof furniture.

F is a cup or receiver of any suitable shape, having a projection G atone sideof its upper edge. Through this projection a hole is made, andthe screw E passes through this hole and thence is screwed into the partD of the holder and against the bottom of the table or desk, so as toclamp the holder in place and at the same time allow the cup F to swivelabout the vertical screwshank E. WVhen not in use, this cup swingsunderneath the table or desk and is not exposed to sight. When a cigaris laid down upon the plate A. the lighted end projecting over the edge,this cup is swung out beneath the end of the cigar, and any ashes whichfall from the cigar will be received in the cup and prevented fromfalling upon the floor. The plateA also prevents the lighted end of thecigar from burning the table or other piece of furniture if it be laiddown carelessly and the end not projecting sufficiently,

Having thus described our invention,what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A combined cigar-support and ash-receiver consisting of a grooved orcorrugated plate having extensions to fit the front and under side ofthe table, a screw passing into the extension under the table to clampit to the under side of the table, in combination with the cup below theunder side of the table, having a flange projecting from its upper edgeand perforated to fit loosely upon. the screw-shank, whereby the cup maybe turned under the table when not in use, substantially as hereindescribed.

2. A combined cigar-support and ash-receiver consisting of a grooved orcorrugated plate fitting the top of the table, having an extensionfitting the front edge and turned under the lower edge, a cup-shapedreceiver below the plane of the under surface of the In witness whereofWe have hereunto set table havinga perforated flange, a screw passourhands.

ing through said flange, so that the receiver EDWIN ALLEN TIBBITS.isrevoluble about the screw-shank and may CLARENCE WILLIAM SADLER. beturned under the table, said screw secur- Witnesses:

ing the plate to the table and-the receiver of J. DENNIS,

the plate, substantially as herein described. G. W. HART.

